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NPR @npr.org · 23/12/2025
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against President Trump on Tuesday, refusing to reinstate, for now, Trump's ability to send National Guard troops into the state of Illinois over the objections of the governor. n.pr/4jf8ukf
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Supreme Court rules against Trump in National Guard case
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against President Trump on Tuesday, refusing to reinstate, for now, Trump's ability to send National Guard troops into the state of Illinois over the objections of the governor.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/12/2025
Breaking news: Moderate House Republicans join Democrats to force a vote on ACA subsidies, which are likely to expire. Speaker Mike Johnson had refused to allow a vote, provoking the strongest rebellion among Republicans from swing districts to date.
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Moderate House Republicans join Democrats to force vote on ACA subsidies
The Senate has already rejected the plan, so the subsidies are still virtually certain to expire at the end of this year.
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CNN @cnn.com · 17/12/2025
In a closed-door hearing, the former special counsel defended his decision to charge Trump in classified documents and 2020 election cases. cnn.it/3MH1ale
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17/12/2025
The Trump administration said it will be dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, one of the world’s leading Earth science research institutions.
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National Center for Atmospheric Research to Be Dismantled, Trump Administration Says
Russell Vought, the White House budget director, called the laboratory a source of “climate alarmism.”
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CNN @cnn.com · 17/12/2025
The public display of loyalty from Trump and his inner circle — in part, a coordinated counterattack meant to limit the fallout, one aide said — stood in sharp contrast to the internal feuds, staff turnover and public infighting that defined much of the president's first term. cnn.it/48WSdeV
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NPR @npr.org · 17/12/2025
NPR is tracking the record number of congressional lawmakers – now more than one in ten current members – who have announced plans to retire or run for a different office in 2026. n.pr/48IgpTr
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More than 10% of Congress won't return to their seats after 2026
NPR is tracking the record number of congressional lawmakers – now more than one in ten current members – who have announced plans to retire or run for a different office in 2026.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/12/2025
A disruptive, wide-reaching winter storm has knocked power from more than 500,000 customers in the Northwest. The storm is expected to spread across the Rockies and Plains into Thursday.
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Hundreds of thousands are without power as damaging winds hit Northwest
A wide-reaching winter storm has already knocked power from more than 500,000 customers in Washington and Oregon as of early Wednesday morning.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 17/12/2025
Donald Trump’s reclassification of fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction is a public-relations tactic, one expert tells @willgottsegen.com in The Atlantic Daily:
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The New ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction’
What does fentanyl’s reclassification mean for the White House’s renewed War on Drugs?
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/12/2025
Former special counsel Jack Smith testified privately to the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, aiming to dispel Republican efforts to frame his federal prosecutions of President Trump as unjust and political.
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Jack Smith defends his cases against Trump on Capitol Hill
Former special counsel Jack Smith was giving a closed-door deposition to the House Judiciary Committee. He had asked to testify in public.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17/12/2025
With tariffs unpopular and prices still high, President Trump has repeatedly teased the promise of tariff rebates and large tax refunds next year. But he has not devised a detailed plan, and the GOP in Congress must approve the expensive policy.
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Trump Dangles Cash Payments to Assuage Affordability Concerns
With tariffs unpopular and prices still high, the White House has teased the promise of tariff rebates and large tax refunds next year.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17/12/2025
Breaking News: The Senate approved a $900 billion defense policy bill, clearing legislation to authorize new weapons and technology, with measures to reassert some congressional oversight of military operations. Trump is expected to sign the bill into law in the coming days.
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Senate Passes Defense Policy Bill, Clearing It for Trump
The legislation authorizes $900 billion for the Pentagon, provides a pay raise for troops, and has some measures to reassert congressional oversight.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/12/2025
Breaking news: At least two senators have placed holds on the nomination of Adm. Kevin Lunday to serve as the Coast Guard’s commandant after the service downgraded the definition of swastikas and nooses from hate symbols to “potentially divisive.”
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Senators freeze Coast Guard admiral’s promotion over swastika, noose policy
Adm. Kevin Lunday had condemned both symbols and directed they be prohibited, but a new workplace harassment policy downgrading them to “potentially divisive” was allowed to take effect.
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CNN @cnn.com · 17/12/2025
The full statement about the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner by several of their close friends: cnn.it/3MExjK8
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 17/12/2025
Trump’s decision to end a student loan repayment program has left 8 million Americans facing changing loan terms. “This is a policy choice by the Trump administration to make it worse for everybody.” From @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social: trib.al/dNgvD4M
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GOP Forcing Eight Million Student Loan Borrowers Into Repayment - The American Prospect
The most affordable of all the federal repayment programs is ending sooner than planned after Trump conspired with red-state attorneys general to kill it.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15/12/2025
Dr. Mehmet Oz’s ability to reach an audience is undisputed. But he now faces a test of whether showmanship and affability can win over public support as he guides major Medicaid changes and oversees soaring costs of Affordable Care Act plans.
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What happened when Dr. Oz took charge of a wonky health agency
The former TV doctor running the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Washington’s wonky health agency, has garnered positive reviews — even from some Democrats.
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CNN @cnn.com · 15/12/2025
Patriot Front, a White supremacist group, has been quietly building a 124-acre compound in the mountains of east Tennessee, where they train members and host fight clubs. cnn.it/44rpU6V
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15/12/2025
Across the conservative spectrum, a steady drumbeat of commentators have warned that President Trump’s coalition is weakened, and the party is headed for defeat in November’s midterm elections.
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MAGA leaders warn Trump the base is checking out. Will he listen?
President Donald Trump is taking criticism from supporters for not addressing cost-of-living issues while focusing too much on foreign policy and billionaires.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Nothing says racism, cruelty, hatred and weakness combined in one quite like the orange felon removing all free access to National Parks on federal holidays that honor black people whilst giving free access on his own birthday. He should’ve been sent to jail forever.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks. They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
What is going on here?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.
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NPR @npr.org · 05/12/2025
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration. n.pr/48E1oko
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Supreme Court agrees to hear arguments in birthright citizenship challenge
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration.
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Despite the heavy ongoing controversy, right-wing media continue to praise Trump's legally dubious boat strikes in the Caribbean which killed at least 83 people.
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NPR @npr.org · 05/12/2025
The Trump administration has set forth a national security strategy that paints European allies as weak and aims to reassert America's dominance in the Western Hemisphere. n.pr/3KiaCut
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Trump's security strategy slams European allies and asserts U.S. power in the Americas
The Trump administration has set forth a national security strategy that paints European allies as weak and aims to reassert America's dominance in the Western Hemisphere.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 05/12/2025
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has distanced himself from the fallout of the U.S. military strike on alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean on Sept. 2, which killed 11, as Adm. Frank M. Bradley has come under scrutiny. Here’s what to know about him:
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Who is Adm. Frank Bradley, commander in the boat strike controversy?
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has distanced himself from the fallout from the strike, which killed 11, as Bradley has come under scrutiny.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/12/2025
Aiming to give Republicans an extra House seat in 2028, a Trump-aligned nonprofit has put $4.35 million toward supporting a proposed ballot measure that would repeal Utah’s anti-gerrymandering law.
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Post-Trump, What Happens to His War Chest? Utah Offers One Clue.
A Trump-aligned political group is quietly spending millions to help state Republicans have a friendlier House map in 2028 — not in 2026, as with all of his other redistricting efforts.
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Slate @slate.com · 05/12/2025
You have to hand it to Melania Trump for these decorations ... slate.trib.al/aLA5SJX
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Melania Trump, America’s Creepy-Christmas Queen, Has Done It Again This Year
The part-time remote-work first lady returns to the office.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 05/12/2025
For the first time in a decade, no hurricanes made landfall in the US this year. However, we won’t always be this lucky, and when the next disaster hits, a FEMA gutted by Trump will not be equipped to respond. From Kenny Stancil: trib.al/4dTp8sK
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Trump’s Katrina Is Coming - The American Prospect
The president’s FEMA sabotage has all but guaranteed us more acute disasters in the future.
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CNN @cnn.com · 05/12/2025
The quiet calm of a weekday morning in a Woodbridge, Virginia, neighborhood was suddenly interrupted by a loud siren, two Humvee-style vehicles and a group of SWAT-like figures in camouflage, rifles trained on a house. cnn.it/4ahpwvF
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 05/12/2025
Thrust into the spotlight, former Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Slaughter has taken on a new high-profile role: one of the primary opponents of Trump’s war on federal workers. On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in her case.
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Trump fired this regulator. She’s fighting him to the Supreme Court.
As she fights to keep her seat on the Federal Trade Commission, Rebecca Slaughter has emerged as one of the primary opponents of Trump’s war on the federal workforce.
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CNN @cnn.com · 05/12/2025
"And for Trump, calling affordability a scam is doubly strange because it's the very issue that helped propel him back to the White House," writes Matt Egan | Analysis cnn.it/4pJfEz8
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/12/2025
Breaking News: The Supreme Court agreed to review a landmark dispute over the constitutionality of President Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
A headline reads: "Supreme Court Will Review Trump Order Restricting Birthright Citizenship." The Supreme Court building is shown largely covered in scaffolding. An individual walks on the sidewalk in the foreground. Photo by Tierney L. Cross for The New York Times.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 05/12/2025
The Supreme Court announced it will hear a case on the legality of President Trump’s birthright citizenship ban, a high-stakes review that could redefine who is considered an American.
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Supreme Court will hear case on Trump’s ban on birthright citizenship
The Trump administration asked the justices to take up the case on an expedited basis in September after lower courts found the policy unconstitutional and blocked it.
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 05/12/2025
FIFA President Gianni Infantini used the World Cup draw to bestow a made-up award, the FIFA Peace Prize, to Donald Trump, a president inflicting violence both at home and abroad. @edgeofsports.bsky.social and @julesboykoff.bsky.social take a look at this absurd, risible act. bit.ly/44ThjtN
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FIFA Kisses Up to Trump With Absurd “Peace Prize”
With the world’s soccer fans watching, Gianni Infantino, the great toady to the globe’s oligarchs, handed a made-up peace prize to the increasingly violent US president.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 05/12/2025
Unlike many of his contemporaries, billionaire Jeff Yass is driven almost entirely by his commitment to promoting vouchers and other school choice programs. Here’s how one of the richest people on the planet uses politics to press his pet issue:
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Meet the billionaire pushing taxpayer-funded school vouchers
How one of the richest people on the planet presses his pet issue: school choice
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CNN @cnn.com · 05/12/2025
A federal judge in Florida ordered the unsealing of grand jury transcripts and other records in the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, paving the way for the public release of those documents. cnn.it/44a2qTG
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 03/12/2025
Breaking: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth could have put U.S. troops and national security at risk with the Signal chat, the Pentagon’s top watchdog concludes. The Atlantic’s staff writers report:
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Hegseth Risked Endangering Troops With Signal Messages
An inspector general report finds that the defense secretary violated his department’s policies.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 03/12/2025
The Trump administration will announce a rollback of fuel efficiency rules for cars and trucks. With weaker rules, car companies will “make more gas guzzlers,” said Dan Becker of the Center for Biological Diversity.
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Trump plans to weaken fuel efficiency rules for cars and trucks
Executives from Ford, GM and Stellantis will be at the White House Wednesday as Trump rolls back rules pushing automakers to sell more electric cars.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 03/12/2025
@nickturse.bsky.social has been breaking stories on the Trump administration's boat strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific, including the double-tap strike of September 2 for which Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has recently come under fire.
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Nick Turse On Reporting During Trump 2.0
Nick Turse is a senior reporter for The Intercept, reporting on national security and foreign policy. He's been breaking stories on the Trump administration's boat strikes in the Caribbean and…
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NPR @npr.org · 03/12/2025
The president said in a social media post that the Democratic lawmaker had been targeted by the Department of Justice for “bravely” speaking against former president Biden's border policies. (via @texaspublicradio.bsky.social)
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Trump to pardon Rep. Cuellar, says charges were retaliation for border stance
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said, "Henry, I don't know you, but you can sleep well tonight — your nightmare is finally over!"
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/12/2025
A Supreme Court ruling against President Trump's tariffs could force his administration to pay back a substantial portion of the roughly $200 billion it has collected in duties since the start of the year. Some companies aren’t waiting to try to secure a speedy and substantial payout.
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Ahead of Tariff Ruling, Businesses Race to Secure Refunds
The Supreme Court has not yet ruled on the legality of President Trump’s sweeping tariffs, but some companies aren’t waiting to try to secure a speedy and substantial payout.
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Legal analyst Andrew Napolitano, Pete Hegseth’s former Fox News colleague, says it gives him “no pleasure to say” that the defense secretary must be prosecuted for war crimes.
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Pentagon Pete’s Old Fox News Colleague Demands War Crime Prosecution
The former legal analyst for the network believes everyone who gave or followed the alleged “kill everybody” order must be brought to justice.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 03/12/2025
Breaking news: The Pentagon’s top watchdog found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated security protocols meant to protect U.S. troops by using a personal device to share sensitive operational details on the messaging app Signal.
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Watchdog finds Hegseth violated Pentagon protocol in ‘Signalgate’ affair
The Defense Department inspector general finds Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated Pentagon protocol in use of Signal to share highly sensitive U.S. attack plans, according to officials who have s...
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CNN @cnn.com · 20/11/2025
Since 2018, Trump has repeatedly made a point of promoting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's denials on the Khashoggi scandal — often emphasizing the crown prince’s words over the findings of the US intelligence assessments. A timeline of some of Trump’s remarks: cnn.it/3K85poR
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 20/11/2025
Donald Trump’s baiting and deflecting over the Epstein files has left him insisting that the investigation is both “too tedious to merit discussion” and also the “nuclear bomb that will destroy the entire Democratic Party,” @jonathanbchait.bsky.social argues:
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Trump’s Toddler Response to the Epstein Saga
The president baits, deflects, and chews the scenery in a drama that just won’t die.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/11/2025
We found that Donald Trump has granted clemency in at least a dozen criminal cases that originated during his first term. No president since Clinton has used clemency to erase his own appointees’ actions on such a scale. By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
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Trump Is Undoing DOJ Prosecutions From His First Term
We found that Donald Trump has granted clemency in at least a dozen criminal cases that originated during his first term. No other president has used clemency to erase his own appointees’ actions on s...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/11/2025
Breaking News: President Trump signed a bill calling on the Justice Department to release files tied to Jeffrey Epstein, but with significant exceptions. Follow live updates: nyti.ms/484IDWJ
President Trump is pictured from the side walking in a dark blue suit. Headline reads: "Trump Signs Bill to Release Epstein Files, With Loopholes." Photo credit: Kenny Holston/The New York Times.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 20/11/2025
Breaking news: President Donald Trump said that he has signed a bill directing the Justice Department to release the Epstein files, documents fervently sought by his political opponents and members of his political base.
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Trump signs bill directing Justice Department to release Epstein files
Despite Trump’s signature, the legislation calling for the release of the files includes major loopholes. The department has said little about its plans.
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CNN @cnn.com · 20/11/2025
The House unanimously moved to repeal a controversial provision in the government funding law that allows senators to sue the Justice Department for up to $500,000 when their phone records are seized without their knowledge. cnn.it/49uLwCS
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CNN @cnn.com · 20/11/2025
President Donald Trump announced that he plans to host New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani Friday in the Oval Office, the first face-to-face meeting for the two politicians since Mamdani was elected earlier this month. cnn.it/44lcvNv
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